Fondness for a Place
September 16, 2014
Inspirational Art
Ginger’s pick for today is a bit of lovely wall art by New York’s Joan Israel. Like yesterday’s post, this polymer clay landscape scene consists of individual elements that are arranged to tell a story although I think this one is more about the artist than the town.
Although scenes and stories in polymer are most often literal imagery, the dimensionality and playfulness of the material lends itself more readily to symbolism and metaphor rather than realistic illustration. In this piece, the size of the various components relay a hierarchical importance between the images. The river, the sun, and the bird are the largest, most active and contrasting of the elements here. Light, freedom and a gentle meandering from these along with the bright and rich colors gives the viewer a sense that this is a very happy place, one the artist must be very fond of. The position of the menorah top and center helps in identifying the place if you didn’t see the title of the piece to start with. The title is “Israel” by the way, one of Joan’s favorite places, she confesses in her Flicker comments. Her love of the place does shine right through.
Bright colors and stylized imagery is Joan’s trademark from her jewelry to her covered decor to wall pieces like this. For a bright and sunny break in your day, take a look at Joan’s work on her Flickr photostream.
Ginger Davis Allman lives in Springfield, Missouri with her husband Gary, her three kids and her many craft obsessions. Subscribe to her blog and look around her website for her well-researched and in-depth posts and articles on polymer related subjects. Support her great information and research as well as treating yourself by getting yourself a tutorial or two from this talented lady.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
Intricately Layered
March 11, 2014
Inspirational Art
Israel’s Lesya Binkin produces intricately layered pendants and other polymer based jewelry. She is no polymer purist, tossing in a bit of this and that to create pieces that are not at all defined by the materials.
Lesya’s posts on her website, “My 7-years professional experience as a graphic designer at fashion field determines the main line at my polymer clay jewelry-making. It is multi-layer and graphic, made with the same principle as ones used at computer graphic programs. I mix layers and objects using various materials such as colorful metal leaf, metal powders and spangles in different color combination and shapes.” I don’t know about you, but I highly approve of the end result!
Her shapes and layers vary widely so don’t miss out on the very many incarnations of this heavily layered approach by heading over to her Flickr photostream or her website.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
Ginger’s pick for today is a bit of lovely wall art by New York’s Joan Israel. Like yesterday’s post, this polymer clay landscape scene consists of individual elements that are arranged to tell a story although I think this one is more about the artist than the town.
Although scenes and stories in polymer are most often literal imagery, the dimensionality and playfulness of the material lends itself more readily to symbolism and metaphor rather than realistic illustration. In this piece, the size of the various components relay a hierarchical importance between the images. The river, the sun, and the bird are the largest, most active and contrasting of the elements here. Light, freedom and a gentle meandering from these along with the bright and rich colors gives the viewer a sense that this is a very happy place, one the artist must be very fond of. The position of the menorah top and center helps in identifying the place if you didn’t see the title of the piece to start with. The title is “Israel” by the way, one of Joan’s favorite places, she confesses in her Flicker comments. Her love of the place does shine right through.
Bright colors and stylized imagery is Joan’s trademark from her jewelry to her covered decor to wall pieces like this. For a bright and sunny break in your day, take a look at Joan’s work on her Flickr photostream.
Ginger Davis Allman lives in Springfield, Missouri with her husband Gary, her three kids and her many craft obsessions. Subscribe to her blog and look around her website for her well-researched and in-depth posts and articles on polymer related subjects. Support her great information and research as well as treating yourself by getting yourself a tutorial or two from this talented lady.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
Israel’s Lesya Binkin produces intricately layered pendants and other polymer based jewelry. She is no polymer purist, tossing in a bit of this and that to create pieces that are not at all defined by the materials.
Lesya’s posts on her website, “My 7-years professional experience as a graphic designer at fashion field determines the main line at my polymer clay jewelry-making. It is multi-layer and graphic, made with the same principle as ones used at computer graphic programs. I mix layers and objects using various materials such as colorful metal leaf, metal powders and spangles in different color combination and shapes.” I don’t know about you, but I highly approve of the end result!
Her shapes and layers vary widely so don’t miss out on the very many incarnations of this heavily layered approach by heading over to her Flickr photostream or her website.
If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.
